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A picture of surfers walking on a beach in the sunset. By Sean Keenan

Ride the Wild Surf

27/11/2013

California is quite simply projecting the dreams of a dying Sun God into the ether...

Gonzo Bikery in Huntington Beach

14/11/2013

To be truthful we built the bike as an inside joke. A thumb in the air to every motorcycle cool guy trope we've ever come across. ...

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The Beat Instrumental

09/10/2013

Without sung text the listener was invited to create an entire narrative based on only the title and the music itself. You had to do a little (imaginative) work. ...

A picture of The Strange Sounds of Cthulhu

The Songs of Lovecraft’s Children

25/09/2013

Gary Hill won’t make a fortune from The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft, or be interviewed on breakfast TV about it, but it had to be written....

A picture of Rachael Reichert lingerie event

PAFT Relief with Rachael Reichert

19/09/2013

CyBelle Horizon: a comic book, a video and a catwalk show all surrounded by vintage issues of American comic books. It could, and perhaps should, have been a total disaster...

The Trouble With Harry

20/08/2013

If, by purposeful default, the authorities allow the streets to become a cesspit, don’t be surprised if the people secretly long for the protection of a Police State...

Philip K Dick : An Adapted Man

14/08/2013

As far as adaptations of Philip K Dick’s work go there are not as many as you might think...

Wings of Wax and a Missed Payday

08/08/2013

If the pink beam was indeed a vital message from beyond, then Phillip K Dick proved to be a totally unsuitable transmission device for it....

Sometimes the Stars Rain Down Hard

03/08/2013

Off World, a new and unexpected threat to Phil’s razor-edged peace of mind was lurking in the wings. Its name was Blade Runner...

Philip K. Dick : 2-3-74

30/07/2013

'Plastic explosives had been used to open his filing cabinets and many important manuscripts, letters, notes and possessions were missing.' Philip K. Dick's trials continue....

And Phil Kept Falling Pt. 2

22/07/2013

A new audience of potheads, tripsters and scene makers had no doubt that, when it came to psychedelic science fiction, Phil was the man...

And Phil Kept Falling

17/07/2013

Berkeley in the early fifties was a hotbed of radical thought and a young Phil stumbled through it with an impish sense of humour alienating Marxists, Trotskyites and ‘free thinkers’ alike with...

Why is Lovecraft so Sexy?

22/05/2013

'the man himself was an eccentric, though charming, recluse with a genteel nature and an intense dislike of seafood'...

Metal Machine(gun) Music : DISARM

18/04/2013

DISARM, currently showing at the Lisson Gallery in London features playable musical instruments created from illegal firearms and artworks of sci-fi sonic weapons...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Final Part]

10/04/2013

'Art is not made by committee' SWP concludes his series on the art of the soundtrack...

Lost Elvis Duets

01/04/2013

'the presumably bouffant Miss Springfield replies tartly: ‘I think we are ready to work now Mr. Presley.’ SWP reviews the legendary lost Elvis duets....

Shaky Kane : Interview

29/03/2013

A pencil and a cheap drawing pad - those are the only tools you need, that and an idea bursting to get out the graphite running up that stick of wood'...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 3]

27/03/2013

If you want sublime original music you don’t ask a god-given talent to appropriate and subtly re-arrange a track by Enya....

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 2]

21/03/2013

The great composers like Jarre responded heroically to the high expectations of both director and studio....

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us

14/03/2013

Stringwash and atmospherics? If you notice a film's soundtrack that means it's failed? Not in SWP's opinion. The art of the film score, revisited....

The Sea and Cake : Live, The Scala

07/03/2013

On record they’re more like a heat haze or a fine mist on an autumn morn than a music act, but live these men really know how to work the material hard....

Time is Tights : London Super Comics Convention

05/03/2013

Modern corporate comics are creatively empty franchises that have completely lost touch with the general public....

Black Music: What’s Going On?

19/02/2013

To make a masterpiece you need raw talent, terrific songs, musicians who can create soulful grooves and producers who experiment . SWP asks of Black Music : Where are they?...

The Sensual Economist

11/02/2013

For no outwardly discernible reason, the periodical had decided to give the soft-porn star a full page obituary (with picture)....

We Are All Dead Now [Stephen Jones]

04/02/2013

Zombie Apocalypse threatens imminently. SWP composes the soundtrack....

Rapper Zay-Gee to Invade Lithuania

21/01/2013

He quipped that if the Lithuanians didn’t give up without a shot being fired then he just might send the girls over to ‘work some shock and awe’....

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James Herbert: Ash [Audiobook]

07/01/2013

Suddenly, what should have been a relaxing holiday in an area of stark natural beauty became a torturous experience, as if we were trapped in an overlong horror novel with too much description and...

Hoxton (Alco) Hall

05/12/2012

'mysterious ‘Negro delineators’, trapeze artists, jugglers, singers, performing dogs and the like', Hoxton Hall has moved with the times since 1863....